Bryan Johnson argues that life's purpose right now is creating a future beyond what we can imagine. He draws on James Carse's concept of infinite games—endless, evolving contests—as the only viable way to play. The landscape of possibilities is changing so fast that old risk-assessment and decision-making assumptions become obsolete almost immediately.
What do you think is the meaning of this whole thing of life? Our technological progress is getting to a point where we could aspirationally say we want to figure out what is really going on. Really going on. Because does any of this really make sense? Now, we may be 100, 200, 500, a thousand years away from being able to poke our way out of whatever is going on, but I'd say in this moment of time, the meaning of life is that we can build a future state of existence that. That is more fantastic than anything we could ever imagine. And I guess the last thing, if there's multiple meanings of life, it would be infinite games. You know, James Car wrote the book Infinite Games. The only game to play right now is to keep playing the game. There's a moment here where we can contemplate playing infinite games. Therefore, it may make sense to err on the side of making sure one is in a situation to be playing infinite games. The landscape of possibilities changing very, very fast. And therefore our old algorithms of how we might assess risk assessment and what things we might pursue and why those assumptions may fall away very quickly.
